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American Routes Live: Creole Songlines of Leyla McCalla and Saxophonist Donald Harrison's Jazz Journey American Routes Live: Creole Songlines of Leyla McCalla and Saxophonist Donald Harrison's Jazz Journey January 13th, 2021 (Hour 1)
American Routes Live: Creole Songlines of Leyla McCalla and Saxophonist Donald Harrison's Jazz Journey

We go live in concert and conversation with two New Orleans artists each of whom bring their family heritage forward into contemporary music. Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Leyla McCalla has called New Orleans home for many years, but her family ties are to Haiti. She draws on French Creole roots for inspiration, as well as from the poetry of Langston Hughes. Then jazz saxophonist Big Chief Donald Harrison, whose musical journey includes time in New York with drummer Art Blakey’s band, talks about “Afro-New Orleans” culture and demonstrates how to bring soul, funk, and Black carnival traditions into modern jazz.

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SACRED STEEL BROTHERS AND A JAZZ MASTER: ROBERT RANDOLPH, CALVIN COOKE AND YUSEF LATEEF

December 4th, 2013

Sacred steel guitarist Robert Randolph has gathered together the leading players of the genre for a recent recording, paying tribute to the past, and covering tunes outside the cannon. We’ll speak with him and one of his fellow Slide Brothers, Calvin Cooke. Then a conversation with jazz adventurist Yusef Lateef about his musical mentors and inspirations.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Wade In the Water The Slide Brothers
    Robert Randolph Presents: The Slide Brothers, Concord
  • Don't Let the Devil Ride Sonny Treadway
    Traditional Sacred African-American Steel Guitar Music in Florida, Arhoolie
  • The Devil and Jesus Eric Burdon
    'Til Your River Runs Dry, ABKCO
  • Voodoo Cadillac Southern Culture on the Skids
    Dirt Track Date, Geffen
  • Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On Big Maybelle
    The Complete Okeh Sessions,
  • I'm Shakin' Jack White
    Blunderbuss, Third Man/ Columbia
  • Who Do You Love? Bo Diddley
    His Best, Chess/ MCA
  • Instrumental: Bluebonnet Rag Speedy West
    Stratosphere Boogie, Razor and Tie
  • Sitting On Top of the World Moses Williams
    Southern Street Musicians, NCTA/ Unreleased
  • Steel Guitar Stomp Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
    Legends of Country Music, Columbia/ Legacy
  • Dire Wolf Grateful Dead
    Working Man's Dead, Warner Bros.
  • Mother's Children Have a Hard Time Blind Willie Johnson
    The Complete Blind Willie Johnson, Roos & Blues
  • Motherless Child Eric Clapton
    From the Cradle, Reprise
  • Instrumental: Jewel Praise Calvin Cooke
    Heaven, Darecords
  • SEGMENT: Robert Randolph & Calvin Cooke

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  • Wade In the Water The Blind Boys of Alabama with Ben Harper
    Higher Ground, Real World
  • Blue Sky The Allman Brothers Band
    Eat a Peach, Capricorn
  • Instrumental: Steelin' the Blues Tom Morrell
    No Peddlers Allowed, WR

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Six Miles Next Door Yusef Lateef
    The Blue Yusef Lateef, Atlantic
  • Jumpin' With Symphony Sid King Pleasure
    King Pleasure Sings / Annie Ross Songs, Original Jazz Classics
  • Down 'n' Adam Lester Young
    The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve, Verve
  • Whatcha Gonna Do When There Ain' No Swing Catherine Russell
    Strictly Romancin', World Village
  • (Every Time I Hear) That Mellow Saxophone Roy Montrell
    Creole Kings of New Orleans, Specialty
  • Othelia Yusef Lateef
    The Blue Yusef Lateef, Atlantic
  • Johnny Can't Dance Clifton Chenier
    Louisiana Blues and Zydeco, Arhoolie
  • Instrumental: The Plum Blossom Yusef Lateef
    Eastern Sounds, Prestige
  • Mean Old World Sam Cooke
    Night Beat/ Sam Cooke, RCA
  • That Old Feeling Lena Horne
    Lena Horne: The Best of the RCA Years, BMG
  • My True Story Aaron Neville
    My True Story, Blue Note
  • Tell It Like It Is Aaron Neville
    The Best of Aaron Neville, A&M
  • Tell It Like It Is Dirty Dozen Brass Band with Robert Randolph
    Medicated Magic, Ropeadope
  • Instrumental: Afternoon in Paris (take 2) Sonny Stitt
    Sonny Stitt, Bud Powell, J.J. Johnson, Prestige
  • SEGMENT: Yusef Lateef

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  • Down By the Riverside The Blind Boys of Alabama with Allen Toussaint & Preservation Hall Jazz Band
    Down in New Orleans, Time Life
  • End Bed: Just Us Blues Elvin Jones
    Illumination!, Impulse

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